The Best, Worst, and Deadliest Roads in America

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Mar 132010
 

I wonder how many of the states with the worst roads are run by Liberals? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?


America is spending more money to build, maintain, and improve the roads, and it’s paying off—give or take a few stretches of pavement and a few bridge spans. Rural interstates are shaping up, for instance, but their heavily traveled urban counterparts are getting worse. The percentage of deficient bridges has increased for the first time in 25 years, and as almost any driver will attest, congestion isn’t going away. But these trends are more than offset by good news about fatalities—sharply down year over year from 2006 to 2008 (though in 2008, 37,261 Americans died in accidents—more than double the number who died from homicides). To quantify how America’s roads and drivers are doing, we factored in the latest data for spending, congestion, road and bridge condition, and safety to see how our states rate. Here’s what you, your legislators, and your local highway officials can do to fix things and how you can stay alive while you drive.

THE RANKINGS:

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Profiling – Do You See a Pattern Here?

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Mar 042010
 

A lot of Americans have become so insulated from reality that they imagine America can suffer defeat without any inconvenience to themselves.

Our politically correct government says absolutely No Profiling!

Pause a moment, reflect back, and take the following multiple choice test.

These events are actual events from history. They really happened! Do you remember?

1. In 1915, 1.5 million christain Armenian civilians were murderd by:
a) Adolf Hitler
b) The Apaches
c) John Lennon
d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40 called the “Young Turks”

2. 1968 Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by:
a) Superman
b) Jay Leno
c) Harry Potter
d) A Muslim male extremist between the ages of 17 and 40

3. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by:
a) Olga Corbett
b) Sitting Bull
c) Arnold Schwarzenegger
d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

4. In 1979, the US embassy in Iran was taken over by:
a) Lost Norwegians
b) Elvis
c) A tour bus full of 80-year-old women
d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

5. During the 1980’s a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by:
a) John Dillinger
b) The King of Sweden
c) The Boy Scouts
d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

6. In 1983, the US Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by:
a) A pizza delivery boy
b) Pee Wee Herman
c) Geraldo Rivera
d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

7. In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year old American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his wheelchair by:
a) The Smurfs
b) Davey Jones
c) The Little Mermaid
d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

8. In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a US Navy diver trying to rescue passengers was murdered by:
a) Captain Kidd
b) Charles Lindberg
c) Mother Teresa
d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

9. In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by:
a) Scooby Doo
b) The Tooth Fairy
c) The Sundance Kid
d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

10. In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by:
a) Richard Simmons
b) Grandma Moses
c) Michael Jordan
d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

11. In 1998, the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by:
a) Mr. Rogers
b) Hillary Clinton, to distract attention from Wild Bill’s women problems
c) The World Wrestling Federation
d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

12. In the 1980s there was an assissination atempt on the Pope’s life by:
a) Bugs Bunny, Wiley E. Coyote, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd
b) The Supreme Court of Florida
c) Mr. Bean
d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

13. On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles to take out the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two, one crashed into the US Pentagon and the other was diverted and crashed by he passengers. Thousands of people were killed by:
a) Bugs Bunny, Wiley E. Coyote, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd
b) The Supreme Court of Florida
c) Mr. Bean
d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

14. In 2002 the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against:
a) Enron
b) The Lutheran Church
c) The NFL
d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

15. In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by:
a) Bonnie and Clyde
b) Captain Kangaroo
c) Billy Graham
d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

16. In 2008, a Armenian reporter in Turkey was murdered (shot in front of his newspaper) for stating that there should be a discussion between Christian Armenians and Muslim Turks about the Genocide perpetrated by the Turks by:
a) Bugs Bunny
b) Ronald Regan
c) Dali Lama
d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

An American Success Story

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Feb 212010
 

My grandfather used to tell a story about a country boy who went to the big city to seek his fortune, but had no luck finding a job. One day, wandering through a bad section of the city, he spotted a Help Wanted sign in the window of a Brothel.

They were looking for a bookkeeper, but after the madam quizzed the boy about his education and discovered that he could neither read or write, she turned him away.

Feeling sorry for him, she gave him two big red apples as he left. A few blocks down the street, he placed the apples on top of a garbage can while tying his shoe, and a stranger came along and offered to buy them.

The boy took the money to a produce market and bought a dozen more apples, which he sold quickly. Eventually he parlayed his fruit sales into a grocery store, then a string of supermarkets. Eventually he became the wealthiest man in the state.

Finally he was named Man of the Year, and during an interview a journalist discovered that this man could neither read or write.

“Good Lord, Sir,” he said. “What do you suppose you would have become if you had ever learned to read and write?”

“Well,” he answered, “I guess I would have been a bookkeeper in a whorehouse.”